The 54th Massachusetts regiment, under the leadership of Colonel Shaw in the attack on Fort Wagner, Morris Island, South Carolina, in 1863

Legacy of the 54th Service of the 54th The Battle for Fort Wagner

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This photograph depicts Carlos Lopez’s 1943 New Deal mural in the Recorder of Deeds Building in Washington D.C. It captures the 54th’s assault on Fort Wagner and the death of Colonel Robert Gould Shaw at the center of the piece.




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2010 digital photograph of mural. Digital photographs--Color--2000-2010. Highsmith, Carol M., 1946- Carol M. Highsmith Archive.
Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division.
Full Title: "The 54th Massachusetts regiment, under the leadership of Colonel Shaw in the attack on Fort Wagner, Morris Island, South Carolina, in 1863," mural at the Recorder of Deeds building, built in 1943. 515 D St., NW, Washington, D.C.

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